Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authority. Its basis is historical. The Shipping Board was set up as an independent semi-judicial body, to act as a sort of Interstate Commerce Commission of the Seas. The War came. An immense Government merchant fleet was built and operated by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, control of which Congress had vested in the Shipping Board. With the after-War shipping mess, Mr. Coolidge began to look around for a way out of the tangle. He decided that the executive functions of the Board (managing and sale of the merchant fleet) should be under the Fleet Corporation and separated from...
...fight will go to Congress with the President and his supporters standing for unified and independent control of the Board's executive powers by the Emergency Fleet Corporation, with its head responsible to the President; and the Shipping Board standing for control by a board of several members from various geographical sections, independent of the President and responsible to Congress, and with both executive and semi-judicial functions...
...rivalry amounting practically to a feud has flourished between those choleric Spanish Generals, Don Miguel Primo de Riveri y Orbaneja, Marqués of Estella, and Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 86-year-old first Marqués of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. They have differed over the control of Catalonia, and have all but come to blows anent the conduct of the Spanish forces in Morocco. Now at last General de Rivera has triumphed. Last week, as the conqueror of Ajdir, the former capital of Abd-el-Krim (TIME, Oct. 12), he was able to demand that General...
...Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, where the World Series was being played while he lay dying, players, spectators paid tribute to his memory. Numberless editorial writers recalled his sporting generosity, his memorable achievements; 'a man," said The New York Times, "in whom self-control, correct habits and personal integrity were conspicuous, though he was engaged in a calling where they are often painfully lacking. . . ." Memorial resolutions were drawn up by the American Legion at its convention, by the Magistrates of Baseball, by President Emory Hunt of Bucknell (where Christy Mathewson Jr. is a junior), by the Giants, the Reds, the Boston...
...Birth Control. ". . . .Picture a nocturnal scene between a male of the lower stratum, somewhat stimulated by alcohol, and the feminine partner of his misery, weary after a day at the washtub or scrubbing the halls of an apartment house. The mental states of the two, it must be plain, are hardly such as to lead them to pause for consideration . . . of the economic problems of the 21st century...